/lit/ - Literature

>>13263389
Nah, I don't believe in "precursor tech disguised as magic" trope (it's been done to death, let's admit), and it's got nothing to do with time travel either. The dominant society of the world, the 'conquistadores Europe' of the world is quite an advanced civilization, it is settled and developed, the magics and metaphysics of the universe are well understood, the world at large has already reached and gone through the "renaissance", so to speak. These are secrets of the universe, to be sure, and the enlightened minds are always pushing for progress, but most of everything has a spot of their own and things are running smoothly, let's say.
But due to heavy outside factors, such as magic, the reality of souls, other dimensions, actual gods, things that developed were things that held actual power in the world. Say, in our world we developed guns, and guns are THE best weapon so far, far exceeding the spear, which was arguably the best weapon before the gun. In simple terms, of course, not gonna spend many posts talking about this subject. But anyway, say people were more inclined to study the magic and its effects on the world. So they don't develop guns, they have no idea what a gun even is, but they develop a substance that can make your skin like kevlar. Or a way to shoot a magical missile as powerful as a modern v2 rocket. Or a way to make a lump of a particular metal fly, when certain magic effects are applied to it.
Now combine a magic missile with an armor capable of flight, ramp that up to 11 and you get something that kinda sorta resembles a modern plane, except it's magic technology. Their version of modern technology.

But to reveal more is to reveal the story itself. The plot doesn't revolve around the design, production and dispatch of these "planes". It's a more nuanced, character-driven plot, and yes, the planes are quite important overall (kinda like lord of the rings isn't about the government system and taxation policies of king Aragorn, even though Aragorn is important in the story), but at the end of the day they are not the story itself. Only a piece of it.